Snapchat’s giving users a new option to expand their storage capacity for their Snap Memories, which means that if you take a lot of Snaps, you’ll now be able to keep them, as opposed to having to delete older ones to make room in your app.

And a lot of Snap users take a lot of Snaps.

As explained by Snapchat:

“Since we launched Memories in 2016, Snapchatters have saved more than 1 trillion Memories. When we first launched Memories, we never expected it to grow to what it has become today. We want to make sure that our community can continue to store all of their Memories over the long term, so we are introducing new Memories Storage Plans to support Snapchatters with more than 5GB of Memories.”

Your new Memories storage options will include three tiers of pricing, though two of them are built into Snapchat+, its monthly subscription package that also includes a range of other add-on elements.

Your options are:

• A new “Memories Only” plan, which includes 100GB of Memories storage, and is currently priced at $1.99 a month
• Snapchat+ subscribers get 250GB of Memories storage as part of the package ($3.99 per month)
• While Snapchat+ Platinum subscribers ($15.99 per month) get 5TB of Memories storage

So if you want to keep your Snaps, it’ll cost you, but you now have more options to do so.

Snap notes that most Snapchatters won’t have to consider this expansion, as it’s only for users who are looking to keep “thousands of Snaps.” But if you’re in the latter category, you will eventually have to upgrade to keep a hold of your past posts.  

Snapchat says that it will also provide 12 months of temporary Memories storage for any Memories that exceed the 5GB storage limit, giving users more time to decide if they want to upgrade.

But it is looking to make this a new revenue stream, so soon, you’ll need to pay up.

More info on Snapchat’s Memories expanded charges available here.

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Threads is looking to help users post longer missives, with the addition of a custom text editor, which attaches a separate text window to your update.

As you can see in these examples, posted by Robert Nickson, Threads is live testing a new text editor, which provides an easy way to expand your post into a longer article, that will then be automatically attached to your update.

It’s not available to all users as yet, but if you have it, you’ll see a new page icon in your posting options in the app.

Tap on that and you’ll be shown a new info pop-up, which explains the update:

From there, you’ll be taken to the next text editor window, which is like a blog post composer, including a larger text window and text-styling options.

It’s similar to Twitter’s “Articles” option, which it first experimented with before Elon Musk took over at the app, after then-CEO Jack Dorsey lamented the rise in people posting screenshots of Notes app text in their updates.

Since then, as X, the platform has extended the length of posts in-stream instead, with paying users now able to use up to 25k characters in their updates.

X also has a long-form “Articles” option as well (also for paid users), through which it has encouraged publications to post direct to the app, in order to get better reach.

This is seemingly Threads’ variation of the same, providing another means for Threads users to post longer content without needing to share screenshots of text.

And it looks good, it looks like a handy option that will indeed cater to those who want to include longer descriptions. I mean, it does somewhat go against the short-form nature of the app, and, you know, creating threads, like its namesake, but with so many people looking to post more context, to ensure they’re understood, it could be a helpful addition.

The Threads team is currently testing its long-form update with some users.

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